Chances Are
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Sunlounger Stories 2
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Story Synopsis:

Many lives are about to be changed by the determination and heart-felt wishes of a young girl…

Sneak peek of story:

Delilah-Grace had a plan for the people living on Clare Avenue. And when Delilah-Grace made a plan, it generally succeeded.

You see, for a very small, seven-year-old girl with short red hair and approximately twenty-four freckles, Delilah-Grace was extraordinarily determined. And there were certain things she knew about the people who lived in the small fishing village on the West coast of New Zealand’s South Island, despite the fact that she’d only been staying there for four days…

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Tell us about the location you chose for your SUNLOUNGER 2 story… I picked a coastal town in New Zealand this year as NZ has always had this sort of mysterious feel to me. Something about the picturesque landscape, the misty mountains, the combination of snow and rain forests, the culture, the friendliness, it just seemed like the perfect destination for a story that was based in magic and chance.

Have your books featured any exotic destinations? FREE-FALLING was based in Sydney, Australia. PAPER-CHAINS was mainly split between Australia and the UK but the characters also spent time in the Greek Islands and New York!

If you could live anywhere in the world… Look, I’ll be honest, even though I already live here, I’d still have to pick Sydney! But I would love to move closer to the beach – if I can ever afford it I’ll move to the cliffs above Clontarf Beach (about an hour’s drive from me at the moment).

Destination you’ve returned to the most times? Avoca Beach, on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. We head up there for weekend breaks every now and again – I’ve been holidaying there since I was small and I love it! It has that familiarity that always takes me straight back to being a child eating melting lemonade iceblocks when I step onto the sand.

Favourite cuisine from around the world? I know you can get pizza anywhere but I remember being in Rome with my husband (although he wasn’t my husband at the time) and buying these great big squares of pizza that you ordered by their weight. It was stiflingly hot and we ate the pizza along with these sour crushed ice lemon drinks and for some reason I simply remember it as being my best ever pizza experience!

Favourite holiday cocktail? Pina Colada – mostly because of the song – but also because it tastes so good.

Worst holiday romance? I met this guy on a weekend trip to the NSW snowy mountains. He was pretty good-looking and somehow this blinded me from noticing what an absolute ass he was. He was controlling, cruel and I crazily dated him for about two months before I woke up to myself.

Best holiday romance? Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland with a boy who I’d just met and started dating. He and his friends already had this holiday planned and he invited me along. I had so much fun, his friends were great – we went out to daggy clubs and danced to nineties music, visited theme parks and screamed on roller coasters, hung out at the beach and played drinking games… Five years later, I married him!



Moriarty, Nicola

Sunlounger Contributing Author

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Author Bio

NICOLA MORIARTY lives in Sydney’s north west with her husband and two small (but remarkably strong-willed) daughters. She is the younger sister of bestselling authors Liane Moriarty and Jaclyn Moriarty. In between various career changes, becoming a mum and studying at Macquarie University, she began to write. Now, she can’t seem to stop. She has published two novels with Random House Australia (FREE-FALLING and PAPER CHAINS) and has a novella titled CAPTIVATION due out in July.